Trump Explodes: “Are You Stupid? Biden Let Him In!”

Key Takeaways:

• Trump blasted Biden’s Afghan vetting after a refugee allegedly killed a National Guard soldier.

• The suspect entered the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome.

• Trump clashed with CBS reporter Nancy Cordes, calling claims of “thorough vetting” absurd.

This tragedy in Washington, D.C. was exactly the scenario critics warned about back in 2021: a chaotic, panicked Afghan evacuation with no meaningful vetting in place. Now a National Guard specialist is dead, another wounded, and the suspect — an Afghan evacuee tied to a CIA-backed counterterrorism unit — reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire. That’s not a paperwork error. That’s a catastrophic failure of judgment at the highest levels.

When CBS reporter Nancy Cordes tried to insist the suspect “was vetted,” Trump didn’t pretend to play nice. He tore into her — and into the entire idea that a rushed, politically driven withdrawal somehow produced clean background checks. Even DHS is now freezing Afghan immigration cases pending a full review.

And the Pentagon’s IG already confirmed dozens of evacuees posed serious security concerns, including fingerprints on IEDs. This wasn’t a one-off. It was a predictable outcome of a reckless policy.

From Western Journal: 

President Donald Trump doubled down on his condemnation of Biden-era Afghan refugee vetting policies Thursday at the White House, asking a reporter who insisted all migrants were “vetted” if she was “stupid.”

The remark came on the same day as the death of one of the two National Guard troops from West Virginia shot Wednesday in Washington, D.C., allegedly by an Afghan refugee who worked with a CIA-backed counter-terrorism unit in Kandahar.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was shot and arrested at the scene. He reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is the greatest” in Arabic, after the attack.

He now faces murder charges after one of the two Guard members he shot, U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, died on Thursday.

The killing has reignited fears that the Biden administration did a poor job of vetting Afghans brought into the country in the wake of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

UPDATE: DHS confirms my reporting that the suspect is an Afghan national who entered the US on 9/8/2021 as part of the Biden admin’s Operation Allies Welcome.https://t.co/5KR0z6oaP8

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 27, 2025

The shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism, and Trump quickly promised to scrutinize “every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden.” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, meanwhile, said that immigration requests for Afghan nationals had been “stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”

However, while the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan four years ago was being put under a microscope because of Wednesday’s events, many in the establishment media insisted that the immigrants had been vetted. It was an insistence that arose during a Trump media briefing from Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving.

During part of the briefing, CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes alleged that the suspect “was vetted and the vetting came up clean.”

“He went cuckoo,” the president said. “I mean, he went nuts. It happens too often with these people. You see them.”

He added that the chaos of the Afghan withdrawal made it impossible for effective vetting.

 

“This is part of the horrendous airlift from Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked. We will fix it, but will never forget what Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs did to our Country!” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/vAkEyrIo4o

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 28, 2025

“There was no vetting or anything,” Trump said.

“They came in unvetted and we have a lot of others in this country, and we’re going to get them out.”

However, Cordes said that the inspector general for the Department of Justice “just reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and by the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the U.S., so why do you blame the Biden administration for what this man did?”

“Because they let them in!” he snapped, his voice rising. “Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person.”

He emphasized that the Biden withdrawal didn’t follow a plan developed during the first Trump administration for ending U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

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